Sugar, or table sugar, is also known as sucrose. There are actually many different types of sugars - glucose, galactose, fructose and lactose are all sugars, along with sucrose. A more complex example is sucrose (table sugar), which is 42.11% carbon, 6.48% hydrogen, and 51.41% oxygen by mass. Sucrose is made up of one molecule of glucose and one molecule of fructose joined together.
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